“There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets. One's imagination, bewitched and misled, creates illusory maps of the apparently familiar districts, maps in which the streets have their proper places and usual names but are provided with new and fictitious configurations by the inexhaustible inventiveness of the night.” NightImaginationCityCity StreetsCinnamon Shops Book:The Street of Crocodiles Source: The Street of Crocodiles
“In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he found out that my father was the chess master of the region, and so he had him to his house every night.” PlayNightFoundFatherHouseMastersTownsChessRegionsOccupationOfficersEvery NightOur TownGestapo Author:Bruno Schulz